While no one reading this post is likely to see this kind of damage, it's interesting to imagine what today's cities would look like in such a radically different world -- but the scale is so vast that it's hard to fathom. The following is a simple visualization of the landscapes of twelve major coastal cities around the world in three imagined futures: red overlays represent areas that will be submerged after a 50 foot (15.2 m) sea level rise; orange overlays represent areas submerged after a 150 foot (45.7 m) rise; and yellow overlays represent areas submerged after a full 250 foot (76.2 m) rise. The colors represent the fire-like spread of the ocean inland. Take these pictures for what you will; they are what they are.
While many of the cities represented were included for their global importance today, the visual impact of the colored overlays played a big part in determining what cities made the list. The numbers below each square image describe the approximate length of one side in miles/kilometers.
(74.5/120)Montreal, Canada
(54.7/88)Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
(26/42)Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
(28.6/46)London, Great Britain
(16.8/27)Stockholm, Sweden
(22.4/36)Istanbul, Turkey
(22.4/36)Mumbai, India
(53.4/86)Sydney, Australia
(22.4/36)Hong Kong, China
(18.6/30)Pyongyang, North Korea
(20.5/33)Tokyo, Japan
(83.9/135)------------------------
The images above were created using Google Maps and a filter from Hey What's That dot com.
Links:
World Urbanism Day (Wikipedia)
Google Maps
HeyWhatsThat.com (EDIT: I found a direct link to the tool that I used.)
2 comments:
This demonstration, alas simple, of flooding, should raise some eyebrows. I will like to know how it was done, I will like to see what the panorama will be like for Panama, a coastal capital of Republic of Panama *yes the one with the Canal*. Thanks in advance.
Sure thing. I whipped up a version of Panama City HERE.
As for the tool I used to make these images, it was created by HeyWhatsThat.com for Google Maps, and can be found HERE.
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